Accra and Columbus are now sister cities in the arts. The cultural exchange has led to exhibitions of Ghanaian artwork in Columbus. The Pecha Gallery, owned by Michelle Brandt, has a selection of paintings from private collections on display through the end of August.
On this 80th year milestone, this exhibition celebrates the creativity of our community. Juried by Cat Sheridan, director of the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, the exhibition features over 110 works from members of the Springfield Museum of Art.
Our Director Michelle Brandt contributed her thoughts on demystifying the art buying, and collecting experience to the recently released March/April edition of Mahogany Magazine!
“In Akeylah Wellington’s hands, pony beads transform into a memory, a pixel, and a universe.”
We are grateful to 614 Refined Magazine and writer Kristen Paige for this beautiful feature on tapestry maker Akeylah Wellington and her exhibition, “soft power,” at Pecha Projects — now featured in the newly released Summer edition.
“Wellington leaves room for the viewer to be invited and considered. Her tapestries pose the question, ‘What can art do?’ — a question she ultimately asks herself, and invites the audience to ponder as well.”
Today, resilience means reclaiming my voice. It means interrogating inherited silence and choosing to speak anyway. Writers like bell hooks helped me understand that healing is both personal and cultural, especially for Black women. My resilience exists so that the women who came before me are remembered not only for what they endured, but for the strength they passed down. Through my voice, my art, and my healing, I offer recovery to their stories — and to my own.
Michelle Brandt’s new downtown gallery exhibit, Pecha Projects, intersects with personal and community transformation, ancestral healing, and the power of art.
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No Vacancy, presented by the City of Miami Beach in collaboration with the Miami Beach Visitors and Convention Authority and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, is a must-see for anyone with a passion for art.
Columbus-based, contemporary mixed-media artist LaShae Boyd draws on pain and trauma to tell stories through her colorful acrylic and pastel paintings. Though she began making art at just 8 years old, she began to form her true artistic language in 2020, she says.
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Artist Teri Dryden was one of seventeen international collage artists who recently took over a studio in Hackney Wick, London, UK for a week-long collage artist residency with @ceciltouchon, co-hosted by @contemporarycollagemagazine. For the “London Collage Project” the artists were given only one rule—all of the materials used had to be found or sourced in London.
Of the artist workshop, Dryden declared that after “having spent an incredibly creative and stimulating week with a group of fiercely talented collage artists, I am beyond excited to get back into my own studio space and create a body of work inspired by my week-long residency in London."
We are eager to see how this experience influences her practice! Look for new pieces from this series at Brandt Gallery soon.
The Ohio landscape is very diverse from farmlands to forests to urban downtowns. This exhibit of Ohio artists will highlight the many different landscapes seen throughout the state.
Critical Mass: As Galleries Move, Gay and High to Become Columbus’ Next Arts District
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Brandt Gallery is honored to reiterate that the works of four Ohio-based artists will be featured in the 2024 Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba. The participating artists include Richard Lillash, Gavin Benjamin, Celeste Malvar-Stewart, LaShae Boyd, and Darsy Amaya, who recently had the incredible opportunity to travel to Havana, Cuba and have created work gleaned from their experiences there.
The Springfield Museum of Art (SMoA) is thrilled to announce the opening of "Color Fields," a captivating solo exhibition by renowned artist Andrea Myers. This new exhibition will be on view from August 10 to December 29, 2024, with an opening reception on Saturday, August 10th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM. We invite art enthusiasts and the community to join us in celebrating this vibrant showcase of Myers' work.
In "Color Fields," Myers explores the rich and tactile world of fabric, a medium that surrounds us daily. Her work transforms found, donated, and repurposed fabrics into densely patterned installations and picture planes. Using the language of color field painting and a gestural approach to quilt-making, Myers creates organic formations and shifting shapes that merge in dynamic panoramas. Her process involves sewing, cutting, and collaging fabric, resulting in large-scale pieces that blur the lines between two and three-dimensionality.
The exhibition, entitled "Abject Object", chronicles the growth and progress of Art and Feminism at Ohio State University in the 1960's, 70's and 80s.
The exhibition is on view through Jan. 7th 2024.
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BRG is proud to have three artists included as part of the OHIO Art's Council Riffe Gallery's 2023 Biennial Juried Exhibition! BRG artist Jolene Powell served as on of the three jurors for the exhibition, which featured two more of our artists, Jason Morgan and Bernard Palchick. They are two of 63 artists whose work was chosen from 1,661 submissions from artists all across Ohio.
Of her role as Juror, Powell beautifully states, "Jurying this exhibition revealed to me that Ohioans heve a genuine love of art that reflects our canvas of existence, a rich tapestry woven from the threads of every artist's personal story". On view through Jan. 5th, 2024.
BRG has been a proud supporter of Art For Life for over a decade. Art for Life, a biennial auction created in 1989, has helped to raise over $5 million for Equitas Health in funding for HIV/AIDS medical care.
We are honored to have had six artists participating in both the live and silent auctions that took place on Saturday, October 21st.
Talle Bamazi, Christopher Burk, and Jason Morgan receive Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Individual Excellence Awards are recognition of artists’ bodies of work that exemplify specific disciplines and advance the larger creative community. These awards support artists' growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio and their cultural influence beyond the state.
"Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations attempts to document a line of inheritance passing from
parent to child, teacher to students, older to younger."
Artist Kristy Hughes will be a 2022-2023 Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from October 2022 - April 2023.
Chashama’s upstate artist residency located in the Hudson Valley since 2006. Follow the link to see Kristy and the other May 2022 residents work from ChaNorth.
With a generous grant from the Great Meadows Foundation, Teri was able to travel to the Baltimore Museum of Fine Art to see the Joan Mitchell Retrospective.
Teri Dryden has work in the National Collage Society's Small Format Exhbition. The collages are on view from April 8 - June 25, at the Summit Art Space in Akron, Ohio.
"Carborundum Printmaking workshop I am teaching at Hugo Anaya’s wonderful Printshop in Guanajuato, Mexico."
Caitlin Cartwright is a social change artist. Her work is a combination of huge pops of color with painting, drawing and collage. Her work is a great example of using your personal stories to create a sense of connection and community. Join us as we discuss her exciting travels, her artistic journey and how it all shows up in her work.
American painter Caitlin Cartwright discusses how her world travels - especially three years spent in Africa - have inspired her art.
This exhibition celebrates the recent works of Columbus-based artist Bamazi Talle. The paintings on display center around the calabash, a gourd important to his Togolese heritage. Cultivated in West Africa for thousands of years as an essential crop, the calabash has spiritual and cultural significance to many. Talle injects his own deeply personal associations with the calabash to reflect on loss, rebirth, and the COVID-19 pandemic.